On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Heisenberg, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" To which I replied, "Only if it's off."
It's a motor, not a generator. It sounds like it could be a neat motor, but it's still not a generator.
That's the beauty of it! You connect the axes of two of these things together. Power one, and use the power exceeding 100% efficiency to power the other as a generator!
Can anyone tell me why there's no big foot on this story?
A PC PSU must coexist with other components that can't be re-specified. Also, the PC PSU is generally assumed to suck air out of the case and blow it out the back, cooling the other PC components. (I'm aware that the one in this article doesn't.)
Interesting. Some notes on Colorado. (I'm not a lawyer, don't believe a word I say.)
Open carry is prohibited in many municipalities, but AFAIK Denver is the only county that prohibits it. (That said, all of Denver county is incorporated, so it depends on how you look at it.) The municipality I grew up in did not have such a prohibition in the mid '80s. There was some old-timer that carried openly in the mall!
A concealed carry permit does not confer any additional right to openly carry. You will probably be convicted of "brandishing" if you openly carry in a prohibited location, CCW or no.
Concealed carry is expressly allowed at schools (with the standard CCW). I think this is a very good thing. If a couple of teachers were carrying at Columbine it could have mitigated the effects of the intractable navel-gazing on the part of law enforcement. I also like the idea of guys considering becoming campus rapists having to take the possibility of armed women on campus into account.
On the other hand you may not carry in banks. (I think this is a federal law.) This is one of the most blazingly stupid things I've ever heard of. Criminals are drawn to banks like flies to honey. That's where the money is, after all. And the feds go way out of their way to make sure that every gun in the place is in the hands of a criminal (minus some 80 year old who's punching a clock).
Anyway, interesting stuff to me. I'm off topic. Mods, do your worst!
It's stating the facts, not going to extreme left positions and saying humans are causing the earth to heat up.
The article said:
The researchers think their work bolsters the case that global warming due to human activity has created a change in climate unlike anything seen in more than a millennium.
"Liberals" claim to know "the one truth" on just as many topics as "conservatives". (From the "right" car to drive, to the "right" way to teach kids about sex, to the "right" way to throw out my fucking garbage.)
"Conservatives" tend wrap themselves in religion and/or the flag, where "liberals" prefer (pseudo)Science and/or emotional appeals. It all adds up to the same thing in my book.
This is why I reject "both" parties. Neither places enough emphasis on freedom. We can't have any real freedom if we don't tolerate other people making choices we disagree with.
On the other hand, if we take the speed as relative between the Earth and the object, the apple would seem to "fall" faster, in the the Earth would fall toward the apple faster.
But wait! There's more. Inertia, the consequence of mass. Wouldn't the apple's inertia hold it back from falling just a little more than the feather's?
My non-engineering, lower division Physics did not prepare me for these questions!!
The link in your sig gives me a "Internal Server Error". Also, if you aim is to persuade I humbly suggest that you not resort to simple-minded name calling. Calling the President "Shrub" is neither original nor conducive to your apparent goal.
I'm reminded of the (apocryphal, but instructive) story of the car that starts or fails to start depending on the flavor of ice cream the driver chooses.
You seem to have focused on the phase of the circuit the same way the driver in the story focused on the flavor of the ice cream. Try to think of your problem more in terms of the facts, and less in terms of your hasty conclusions.
I think you read a little too much into my comment.
Anyway, call them "undocumented" if you will. The fact is that if their apps are calling OS code that NO ONE ELSE CALLS, they might, indeed, suffer from unique security problems.
Microsoft has a long history of secret APIs used only by their applications. I remember some sort of hubbub about this around '94 when they were taking over the office suite market.
More recently the DOJ at least accused Microsoft of using secret APIs in support of IE, Messenger, Media Player, and Outlook Express.
I don't necessarily think that you are wrong, but the situation is certainly not as cut-and-dried as you seem to think it is.
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The S/PDIF has always been the sticking point with me. Now that it's got it, I'm getting on! (That'll be my first Mac.)
I'd rather not have to get the goofy 1/8th inch adapter, but that's a pretty small matter.
Yay!
-Peter
And if you call Dell looking for support for Windows they will invite you to call Microsoft to pay for support, or pay Dell for support.
It is all outlined in a document that is, ironically enough, called the Dell Support Agreement.
-Peter
Dell doesn't support Windows. Why would not supporting Linux be any harder?
For the record, I was a Dell support tech from '98 to '00.
-Peter
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Heisenberg, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" To which I replied, "Only if it's off."
-Peter
That's the beauty of it! You connect the axes of two of these things together. Power one, and use the power exceeding 100% efficiency to power the other as a generator!
Can anyone tell me why there's no big foot on this story?
-Peter
That's all irrelevant to this discussion.
A PC PSU must coexist with other components that can't be re-specified. Also, the PC PSU is generally assumed to suck air out of the case and blow it out the back, cooling the other PC components. (I'm aware that the one in this article doesn't.)
-Peter
Why do you assume that the possession of a firearm by a law-abiding citizen would turn a robbery into a gun battle?
-Peter
Interesting. Some notes on Colorado. (I'm not a lawyer, don't believe a word I say.)
Open carry is prohibited in many municipalities, but AFAIK Denver is the only county that prohibits it. (That said, all of Denver county is incorporated, so it depends on how you look at it.) The municipality I grew up in did not have such a prohibition in the mid '80s. There was some old-timer that carried openly in the mall!
A concealed carry permit does not confer any additional right to openly carry. You will probably be convicted of "brandishing" if you openly carry in a prohibited location, CCW or no.
Concealed carry is expressly allowed at schools (with the standard CCW). I think this is a very good thing. If a couple of teachers were carrying at Columbine it could have mitigated the effects of the intractable navel-gazing on the part of law enforcement. I also like the idea of guys considering becoming campus rapists having to take the possibility of armed women on campus into account.
On the other hand you may not carry in banks. (I think this is a federal law.) This is one of the most blazingly stupid things I've ever heard of. Criminals are drawn to banks like flies to honey. That's where the money is, after all. And the feds go way out of their way to make sure that every gun in the place is in the hands of a criminal (minus some 80 year old who's punching a clock).
Anyway, interesting stuff to me. I'm off topic. Mods, do your worst!
-Peter
Two pictures of the device, zero pictures of its output. I'm skeptical.
-Peter
I'd like to take the opportunity to thank my Grandfather's generation for the daring acts they undertook to stave off totalitarianism.
If only we had half their courage.
-Peter
Why would more be made of a 1 in 10,000 rate than a 2.4 in 10,000 rate?
-Peter
The article said:
What the fuck?
-Peter
If this can reduce the infinite field of possible theories by half then we will have made real progress.
-Peter
PS: I'm bad at Math.
You're looking for the Libertarian party, or maybe the Guns and Dope party.
-Peter
I think "both sides" suffer from this malady.
"Liberals" claim to know "the one truth" on just as many topics as "conservatives". (From the "right" car to drive, to the "right" way to teach kids about sex, to the "right" way to throw out my fucking garbage.)
"Conservatives" tend wrap themselves in religion and/or the flag, where "liberals" prefer (pseudo)Science and/or emotional appeals. It all adds up to the same thing in my book.
This is why I reject "both" parties. Neither places enough emphasis on freedom. We can't have any real freedom if we don't tolerate other people making choices we disagree with.
-Peter
There's a happy medium between soul-crushing corporate machine and fly-by-night startup.
I highly recommend working for a company with a real, successful product, but without aspirations of world-domination.
-Peter
Huh. Until now I thought it was a good idea.
-Peter
Did Strong Mad write that headline?
Seriously. That's bupkis!
And that's the end of my show (donk).
-Peter
Wow, this just keeps getting more complicated the more I look at it.
At first blush, this seems wrong: all objects fall at ~9.8m/s/s when in a vacuum and near the surface of the Earth.
(This seems to be validated by mg = G (Mm/R^2) -> g = GM/R^2.)
On the other hand, if we take the speed as relative between the Earth and the object, the apple would seem to "fall" faster, in the the Earth would fall toward the apple faster.
But wait! There's more. Inertia, the consequence of mass. Wouldn't the apple's inertia hold it back from falling just a little more than the feather's?
My non-engineering, lower division Physics did not prepare me for these questions!!
-Peter
The link in your sig gives me a "Internal Server Error". Also, if you aim is to persuade I humbly suggest that you not resort to simple-minded name calling. Calling the President "Shrub" is neither original nor conducive to your apparent goal.
-Peter
I'm reminded of the (apocryphal, but instructive) story of the car that starts or fails to start depending on the flavor of ice cream the driver chooses.
You seem to have focused on the phase of the circuit the same way the driver in the story focused on the flavor of the ice cream. Try to think of your problem more in terms of the facts, and less in terms of your hasty conclusions.
-Peter
"Middleware" is used in a weird sense here. According to the DOJ IE, Outlook Express, MSN Messenger, and Windows Media Player are "middleware".
-Peter
I think you read a little too much into my comment.
Anyway, call them "undocumented" if you will. The fact is that if their apps are calling OS code that NO ONE ELSE CALLS, they might, indeed, suffer from unique security problems.
-Peter
Microsoft has a long history of secret APIs used only by their applications. I remember some sort of hubbub about this around '94 when they were taking over the office suite market.
More recently the DOJ at least accused Microsoft of using secret APIs in support of IE, Messenger, Media Player, and Outlook Express.
I don't necessarily think that you are wrong, but the situation is certainly not as cut-and-dried as you seem to think it is.
-Peter
There will always be unknowable things. Making up a fantastic story to explain those things runs counter to Science as I understand it.
-Peter